Where you’ll dive in Sarasota
Real sites, with honest depths. Kaitlyn will tell you which of these your certification level actually suits before you book anything.
A natural rock ledge just off the beach at the south end of Nokomis — shallow, fishy, and one of the few spots on this coast you can walk in from shore with a tank.
The fossil beds south of the South Venice jetties, reachable only by boat. Sand, phosphate rock, and prehistoric shark teeth. This is the shark-tooth specialty Kaitlyn teaches.
Inlet structure with real current on a running tide. Good for building competence on a moving-water dive once your skills are established.
Patchy natural hardbottom close to the beach — forgiving water for the first open-water dives of a certification course.
Home water, and it shows
An instructor who lives on the water teaches the local conditions differently. Kaitlyn knows which sides of which passes are divable on which tide, which sand off Venice has been giving up teeth lately, and when the Gulf is going to lay down enough to run a certification dive comfortably rather than merely legally. That local read is most of what you are paying a private instructor for.
What she teaches out of Sarasota
Open Water certification through Divemaster, private one-on-one lessons, scuba refreshers for divers who have been dry a while, and the guided shark-tooth fossil specialty offshore of Venice. If you are certified already and just want to get back in the water with someone patient, that is a single afternoon.
She comes to you. Kaitlyn is based in Venice and travels for instruction across Florida — Sarasota included. Give her as much lead time as you can and she arranges the pool, the boat and the dates around your group rather than handing you a fixed class calendar. Travel cost and scheduling depend on distance, group size, and how many days you need; she quotes it directly when you send your dates.
Get Sarasota on the calendar
Send your dates, how many divers, and any certification you already hold. Kaitlyn replies personally with a plan and current rates.